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Remove The Accumulation Of Refuse And/Or Rubbish And Maintain

HPD order 552 · cites NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2010 · written Jul 28, 1966 – Aug 6, 2026

HPD has written 54,438 violations under order 552, "Remove The Accumulation Of Refuse And/Or Rubbish And Maintain", citing NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2010. 13,167 are open right now, 12,718 of them past the legal deadline on the notice.

Open now
13,167
Open past deadline
12,718
Closed
41,271
All time
54,438
Class C (immediately hazardous)
4,682

How order 552 is actually enforced

  • 1,658 notices (3.0%) sit at not complied with: the deadline passed and HPD found the condition unrepaired.
  • 344 certifications of repair were rejected by HPD. 104 of those are recorded as false certification: the owner certified a repair that inspection did not confirm.
  • 326 repairs were certified after the deadline.
  • 10,184 notices (18.7%) are reissues: the violation was written, not fixed, and written again.
  • 12,878 notices (23.7%) were dismissed.

Open order-552 violations by borough

BROOKLYN6,678
MANHATTAN2,528
BRONX2,081
QUEENS1,693
STATEN ISLAND187

Buildings with the most open order-552 violations

  1. 209 AVENUE P, BROOKLYN · 35 open
  2. 1315 48 STREET, BROOKLYN · 33 open
  3. 2455 GRAND AVENUE, BRONX · 27 open
  4. 2325 FOSTER AVENUE, BROOKLYN · 24 open
  5. 2179 WASHINGTON AVENUE, BRONX · 23 open
  6. 1155 EAST 35 STREET, BROOKLYN · 22 open
  7. 1055 BERGEN STREET, BROOKLYN · 22 open
  8. 298 ST MARKS PLACE, STATEN ISLAND · 20 open
  9. 2381 VALENTINE AVENUE, BRONX · 17 open
  10. 201 CHESTNUT STREET, BROOKLYN · 15 open

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The law behind this order

Order 552is HPD’s standard wording for one kind of condition. The legal duty it enforces is NYC Housing Maintenance Code § 27-2010, "Cleaning of roofs, yards, courts and other open spaces". The section page carries the statute text, the measured cure times and the full enforcement record.

§ 27-2010 Cleaning of roofs, yards, courts and other open spaces · Browse open § 27-2010 records in the live feed · All violation codes

Counted from HPD’s Housing Maintenance Code Violations dataset by order number. Figures recomputed Aug 7, 2026.